Transcript World War II

World War II
Vlowe, 2011
Before the war
• Great Depression hurt all countries of Europe
• Hitler became the leader and promised to
make Germany strong again
• Dictator someone who has complete control of a
country,
– No one can act or speak against that person
• Arrested Jews for no reason (different religion)
– He blamed Jews for Germany’s problems
– Prison called concentration camps
– More than 6 million were killed, Holocaust, gassed, hanged,
shot, worked or starved to death, diseases
Preparing for War
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Other dictators Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Germany, Italy and Japan wanted more land
Germany took over countries in Europe
Italy went to war with Africa
Japan took over parts of China
These three countries agreed to help each
other known as the Axis Powers
World War II
• Hitler demanded Poland give Germany some land, because Germany had
lost this land in WWI
• Afraid, asked Great Britain for help if Germany tried to attack them.
• He attacked Sept. 1939, then took control of Poland, later Denmark,
Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, France
• Great Britain and France announced they were at war with the Germans
(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada)
• Winston Churchill prime minister of Great Britain
• Joseph Stalin leader of Soviet Union, signed a secret treaty.
• U.S. didn’t want to get involved
• Japanese decided to bomb Pearl Harbor thinking this would keep the
United States out of the war.
• Fear of Japanese American helping Japan attack U.S., they were sent to internment
camps
• Japan attacked Hong Kong, Shanghai, Philippines, Thailand, Guam and Malaya who were
controlled by U.S. and allies
WWII
• U.S. joined the Allies (Great Britain, Soviet Union and other
countries that fought the Axis.
• Ended Great Depression
• Factories receive more business of making tools, tanks,
guns and other weapons.
• Women went to work in the factories
• Goods were rationed (government limited what a family
could buy)
• Families grew vegetables on farm (called victory gardens) to
send to the soldiers
• Children collected tin cans, to help make weapons, and
peach pits
War in Europe
• Took back countries that Germany and Italy
had taken
• Hardest battle along the beaches in France.
– Germans knew they would go through France to get to Great
Britain, built forts to try to keep them from landing. Sent
2700 ships, flew plans and landed behind the Germans.
– This day known as D-Day, largest sea attack
– Led by General Dwight Eisenhower
– Freed the prisoners in concentration camps, horrified
– Upon reaching their Hitler killed himself, then the German
army gave up
– V-E day (Victory in Europe Day, May 7 1945)
War in Pacific
• Japanese thought they were the best, smartest and
strongest.
• Leader Emperor Hirochito, thought he was GOD
• Kamikaze attacks, flying planes into the allies.
• The U.S. rebuilt its navy and sent troops to Pacific ocean to
fight the Japanese, who had taken over many of the islands.
• Flew from the large ships called aircraft carriers.
• Planes attacked the Japanese on islands while the soldiers
tried to land on the beaches
• British, Chinese, Australians were fighting in east of India
and south of China (Southeast Asia)
Atomic Bomb
• April 1945, President Roosevelt died and Truman took
over.
• Thought the European war would end soon but Pacific
war would go longer ,
• Used this bomb to make the Japanese to give up on
August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan
• Japan still did not give up
• U.S. dropped another atomic bomb three days later in
Nagasaki
• Victory over Japan Day ,( V-J day.) General MacArthur
accepted the surrender
Change Roles in Society
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Middle class women took on jobs
Soldiers came home took back their jobs
More women in the workforce as teachers, nurses
Tuskegee Airmen, AA pilots fought with 332nd Fighter
Group in Army Air Corps
• First AA pilots in the US military
• 1942, United Nations, 26 Allied nations, make sure
there would not be a WWIII. Negotiates peace and
war.
• Meat in Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Quiz
How much do you
know????
Question 1
The name of the German dictator was
a. Winston Churchill
b. Adolf Hitler
c. Franklin Roosevelt
d. Benito Mussolini
Question 2
The Axis Powers included
Question 3
The United States entered World War II because
a. Japan bombed the United States Navy.
b. Hitler put people in concentration camps.
c. Germany bombed Great Britain
d. It was one of the Allies
Question 4
D-Day was a battle on the beaches of
A. Italy
B. Japan
C. Germany
D. France
Question 5
World War II ended in
a. 1941
b. 1943
c. 1944
d. 1945
Question 6
The war in the Pacific ended because
a. Aircraft carriers attacked the islands
b. Atomic bombs were dropped on Japan
c. Adolf Hitler died
d. Harry S. Truman was President
Answers
German dictator was B. Adolf Hitler
Axis Powers included A. Germany and Japan
U.S. entered the war because A. Japan bombed the U.S. navy
D-Day was a battle on the beaches of D. France.
World War II ended in D. 1945.
The war in the Pacific ended because C. Adolf Hitler died